The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid ever….

We can only love what we know..

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water..

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life..

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger w….

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy..

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect..

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore..

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions..

It is to hope, though hope were lost..

Eternity.—Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet wh….

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'.

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?.

We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true..

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application..

The first pale blossom of the unripened year..

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like p….